I have an application which uses a SQLite database to store data locally. I get the path to and open the database using:
string dbPath = System.IO.Path.Combine(FileSystem.AppDataDirectory, "mydatabase")
db = new SQLiteConnection(dbPath);
I have created an example database (example.db3) and copied this to the Resources\Raw folder with the Build Action MauiAsset.
My question is how do I get the path to this database file so I can use
string dbPath = System.IO.Path.Combine("*path to Resources\Raw foldder*", "example.db3");
to get the full path to open the example database.
I have tried searching but the best I can get is using FileSystem.Current.OpenAppPackageFileAsync but this opens the file for stream reading whereas I need to get the path.
Ideally the method would work on all platforms.
It is a known issue about this problem.
You can follow it up here: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/3270.
Thanks for your feedback and support.
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When I try to convert video using MediaToolkit in the local system, then it's working fine, but the same project when I run in docker then output file not saved in the given path.
Also, the output file is not saved in the directory so I am getting null metadata.
Here is my code
using (var engine = new Engine())
{
engine.Convert(inputFile, outputFile, conversionOptions);
engine.GetMetadata(outputFile);
engine.Dispose();
}
FileInfo outputFileInfo = new FileInfo(outputFile.Filename);
Error - Could not find file '/app/e77f2017-ef6e-4115-ba00-73a5c09941a9.mp4'
Can anyone please help me with this?
check the current path (you are working relative)
the program might not run from you think and then "app" directory is not found.
I am experiencing a funny problem: I am developing an ionic app, using cordova-plugin-file to store images. The resulting paths (URIs in form file:///...) are stored in a SQLite DB along with more information. When I install the app and use it, all works perfect. But if I update (or reinstall) the app, the old images are not found anymore, while newly added images work perfect.
I first suspected that the image files were being deleted on update, but I checked the content of the directory and the files are still there. (FYI: I am using file.dataDirectory/scans/ to place my files).
Then I thought that maybe I could go around the problem loading into img src a base64 blob loaded with cordova.file.readAsUrl(), but cordova.file does not find the file as well (I insist, the files are there, I checked with XCode).
So I checked further with cordova.file and it only finds files that are added after last app install, but the older files are still present in the directory.
Here my code:
private getImgSrcFromDocument(doc: Document): any {
const uri = doc.fileName;
const src = this.webView.convertFileSrc(uri);
const sanitized = this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustUrl(src);
console.log({uri, src, sanitized});
return sanitized;
}
<img class="document_thumbnail" [src]="getImgSrcFromDocument(doc)">
I have already checked this, but is not my case.
By the way, the same code works perfect on Android.
Any idea what could be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
I found the reason why and the solution (very obvious when you know the problem):
Reason
On every new install, iOS renames the data directory for the app. The directory path has this form:
file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/ABC0000-1234-99DD-00FA-E835FEA/Library/NoCloud/
The hash in the middle is renewed on every install, so the stored full paths in DB are not valid anymore.
Solution
If you still can do it (no deploy yet, no real users), store only the relative path and complete it every time with this.file.dataDirectory (or wherever you wanted to store your files).
If you already have real users and want your update to 'find the files', just ignore the first part of the stored path and build it like before:
const ValidUri = this.file.dataDirectory + // The injected cordova-plugin-file
'relativeSubDirectories/' + // If you store your files in some subdirectory
this.document.storedFullPath.substr( // Take from fullPath only the filename
this.document.storedFullPath.lastIndexOf('/') + 1
);
Where storedFullPath is the string file:///var/mobile/....
After that, you still have to do the webView conversion and the sanitizing, like in the question above.
Hope this helps someone.
there is some way from inside the "main.js" electron to save a file out of the asar?
I'm fighting with this command to point the way out of the write-only area but I can not do it.
It would be nice that the path was inside /my-project/resources/ and would work even without the electron-package.
let configFilePath = `${__dirname}/../config.json`
db = new loki(configFilePath)
if(fs.existsSync(configFilePath))
db.loadDatabase()
Attempting to write a file within the application installation directory is a bad idea, often the user will not have the permission to do so. Instead you should write files to the location returned by app.getPath('userData').
I start Xamarin Studio 4.0.3 and create a new solution for MonoDroid application. I am targetting version 2.3 or higher. I include Sqlite.cs from the sqlite-net (latest from site) project. I make sure I have a reference to Mono.Data.SQLite in the project. Then in the OnCreate of the default MainActivity I try to use the code shown in the readme to make a database connection:
string path = Android.OS.Environment.DataDirectory.ToString();
string dbname = path + "/" + "test.db3";
var db = new SQLiteConnection(dbname, SQLiteOpenFlags.Create|SQLiteOpenFlags.ReadWrite ,true);
However it always fails with an exception saying it can't open the database. If I follow Greg Shackles example and use SqliteDbHelper method it works, but I would like to understand what I am doing wrong that sqlite-net connection method is not working. I have a feeling I am missing something simple. I did also try just passing in a filename to SQLiteConnection() as well but when it failed I added the OpenFlags to see if that was the issue.
I just found out that apparently you're supposed to use the personal folder, instead of the databases folder:
string folder = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
var db = new SQLiteConnection(Path.Combine(folder, "mydb.db"));
My files are referenced like so (it's all relative):
// WHERE YOU KEEP THE PAGE TITLE XML
public static string myPageTitleXML = "xml/pagetitles.xml";
and
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(myPageTitleXML))
{ //etc.. . .etc....etc..
}
I get system.io.directorynotfound, and "this problem needs to be shut down", when I double click the executable. But running it from the console works like a charm. What's wrong here?
I played around with attempting to set Environment.CurrentDirectory but couldn't get anything to work. Why should I have to do that anyway? It defeats the purpose of a relative path no?
responding.. .
"application" does not exist in the current context, i'll keep trying what people have mentioned, this is not a windows.form
testing
Path.GetDirectoryName(Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase), myPageTitleXML); gives error URI formats are not supported, as does Path.GetFullPath(). Server.MapPath results in an error as well, this is currently offline
Well assuming this directory is somewhere under the directory in which your code is executing, it sounds like you can use ..
Application.ExecutablePath()
or
Application.StartUpPath()
.. to get an idea as to what your application is seeing when it goes in search of an 'xml' directory with the 'pagetitles.xml' file in it.
If the directory returned by one of these methods does not point where you thought it did, you'll need to move the location of your application or the location of this folder so that it is within the same directory as the app.
Hope this gets you on the right path.
So, when you run it from double clicking the executable, is there a file named pagetitles.xml in a folder named xml, where xml is a folder in the same location as the executable?
It's certainly possible to use relative paths like this, but I wouldn't really recommend it. Instead, maybe use something like:
string fileToOpen = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase), myPageTitleXML);
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(fileToOpen))
{
//etc.. . .etc....etc..
}
Is this ASP.NET code? If so then you probably need to do MapPath("xml/pagetitles.xml")